untrustworthy

untrustworthy
I adjective capricious, changeable, conniving, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, double-dealing, faithless, fallible, false, fickle, fly-by-night, fraudulent, frivolous, illusive, inconstant, insecure, insidious, irresponsible, mercurial, perfidious, precarious, questionable, shifty, slippery, tergiversating, treacherous, two-faced, unauthenticated, uncertain, undependable, unfaithful, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, untrue, unworthy of confidence, unworthy of trust, variable, wavering II index dangerous, dishonest, disingenuous, disreputable, faithless, fallible, false (disloyal), fraudulent, inaccurate, insecure, irresponsible, machiavellian, perfidious, precarious, recreant, sinister, suspicious (distrustful), uncertain (questionable), undependable, unreliable, unsound (not strong), unsustainable, untrue

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  • untrustworthy — 1846, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + TRUSTWORTHY (Cf. trustworthy) …   Etymology dictionary

  • untrustworthy — [adj] not dependable, unfaithful capricious, conniving, crooked, deceitful, devious, dishonest, disloyal, dubious, fair weather*, faithless, false, fickle, fink*, fly by night*, guileful, irresponsible, questionable, shady, sharp, shifty*,… …   New thesaurus

  • untrustworthy — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ unable to be trusted. DERIVATIVES untrustworthiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • untrustworthy — [spelling only] …   English World dictionary

  • untrustworthy — [[t]ʌ̱ntrʌ̱stwɜː(r)ði[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you say that someone is untrustworthy, you think they are unreliable and cannot be trusted. I think he is shallow, vain and untrustworthy... His opponents still say he s a fundamentally untrustworthy… …   English dictionary

  • untrustworthy — un|trust|wor|thy [ʌnˈtrʌstˌwə:ði US ˌwə:r ] adj someone who is untrustworthy cannot be trusted …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • untrustworthy — un|trust|wor|thy [ ʌn trʌst,wɜrði ] adjective not capable of being trusted or depended on: I ve never known her to be untrustworthy …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • untrustworthy — adjective the group s untrustworthy treasurer Syn: dishonest, deceitful, double dealing, treacherous, traitorous, two faced, duplicitous, mendacious, dishonorable, unprincipled, unscrupulous, corrupt, slippery; unreliable, undependable, fly by… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • untrustworthy — UK [ʌnˈtrʌstˌwɜː(r)ðɪ] / US [ʌnˈtrʌstˌwɜrðɪ] adjective not capable of being trusted or depended on I ve never known her to be untrustworthy …   English dictionary

  • untrustworthy — /ʌnˈtrʌstwɜði/ (say un trustwerdhee) adjective 1. not to be believed; dishonest. 2. not to be relied on to handle responsibility; unreliable. 3. not to be relied on to perform in a controlled way: *In Nan s mind, lightning and electricity were… …  

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